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Muslim Voices Festival: A Teahouse, and a Shakespeare Play

By Hussein Rashid

…the chaikhana in the Islamicate world and the coffee house in early modern Germany as the formative space for the public sphere. II. Shakespeare in an Arab setting Shakespeare’s play, Richard III, is retold in a modern Arab setting, and it works disturbingly well. The opening begins with a woman, presumably Margaret, speaking of loss and defeat in Arabic. Without any context, one can imagine her as a Palestinian woman speaking of the Nakba. She sp…

Just Call Me Marie: When Women Become Priests

By Rosemary Ganley

…unjust law is to break it,” she says. Leaving her community, she moved to Germany, learned German, and was ordained bishop in a secret ceremony by a European bishop in good standing with Rome. The movement has expanded rapidly. In America, there are now fifty ordained women, in Europe fifteen. It was as if Catholic women, after years of exposure to critical biblical scholarship and feminist interpretations of church history, were ready to take ac…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…eir lives. Spiritual maturity allows individual persons and whole nations (Germany and South Africa, most notably) to pass through a necessary process of self-examination and repentance. Repentance first and foremost requires acknowledgement of the realities of the misdeeds; it requires honest self-examination. Today’s spate of denials, the “many misgivings” responses coming from the liberals, and the bitter attacks on the credibility of the Tortu…

Another Guardian of Catholic Orthodoxy Accused of Protecting Sexual Abusers

By Patricia Miller

…s being made by the former head of the lay diocesan council in Regensburg, Germany, who said that Müller and a deputy “systematically” covered up the abuse, disbanded the diocesan council to thwart outside investigation, and installed at least one known abuser priest in a parish who then committed more acts of abuse. Müller has served as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the second most powerful position in the Vatican, since…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…are the activist leaders who help fan this grassroots support? Look at the latest anti-gay robocall in Michigan, and you’ll see a line straight from the American Family Association’s radical homophobia to Mike Huckabee. In the robocall, reported by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post, the head of AFA’s Michigan affiliate, Gary Glenn, and its affiliated Campaign for Michigan Families, repeatedly describes his target, Democratic state legislative candi…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…eans dragging down flaxen Nordics, even presently present with industrious Germany condescending to a Greece heading for the Grexit. Thanks for democracy but what have you done for us recently? Even the adjectives are ominous: Oriental. Balkan. Byzantine. Why explain what makes someone your enemy when you can just point to geography? Melissa McCarthy in Spy (20th Century Fox). Sure, Spy is about an everyday woman—Melissa McCarthy as the tragicomic…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…e old Norse gods is not about theology or even ethics, but about style and promoting their subculture. In a similar sense, there are neo-Confederates and White nationalists who believe that “Christian-ness” is one aspect of their Western civilization—along with respect for tradition, authority, and Whites-only citizenship rights. For this wing of the movement, best exemplified in my book by a now-deceased Washington Times columnist Sam Francis, op…

LGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…women bishops in the U.S., New Zeland, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, and Germany. The consecration of Lane could exacerbate divisions in the Anglican Communion, as did the ordination by the Episcopal Church in the U.S. of an openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson. (Anglican Mainstream, “an information resource for orthodox Anglicans,” featured on its website this week an article by Joseph Nicolosi, champion of “reparative therapy.”) In a related note,…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…rently has branches in Europe (164), mainly in the UK (124), Ireland (14), Germany (12), France (8) and Spain (6). In the United States one can find 33 MFM churches scattered among the cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Fresno, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Oakland, Sacramento, and San Jose, just to name a few. Dr. Immanuel’s blog contains numerous references to DKO’s ministry, books and teaching. To summarize briefly, DKO’s teaching emp…

Columnist Applauds Russia’s Homophobic Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ssion” or even “tolerance” for LGBT people. They want a government that will give it carte blanche to abuse, torture and even kill LGBT people. In short, they want a government, much like the one in Germany in the 1930s (as actor Stephen Fry so eloquently elucidates), that will give them the right to finally solve “the homosexual problem.” For the children, of course….